Articles for Professionals

An Interview with Dr. Mark Goulston: Listening to Gifted Children and Adolescents Author: Michael F. Shaughnessy Citation: First published in the SENG Update, November 2010 Mark Goulston, M.D., is a business advisor, consultant, trainer and coach. Dr. Goulston was a...

Book Review: High IQ Kids Lorel Shea is the gifted education editor for BellaOnline(sm), which provides an encouraging, supportive publishing community for women. Currently, Lorel is a stay-at-home mom and homeschool facilitator in rural New England. She and her...

Linda C. Neumann On the school athletic field, it seems that everyone expects and reveres top-level performance. A common expectation is that schools will offer special programs and opportunities to help athletes develop and hone their abilities in competition....

Twice Exceptional/Twice Successful: Back to School Strategies that Work Jean Sunde Peterson, professor at Purdue University, directs school counselor preparation and focuses most of her research on gifted youth. Her workshops, keynotes, and presentations address...

An Interview with Dr. Tracy Cross: The Social and Emotional Needs of Gifted Children Question by Dr. Michael Shaughnessy:Tracy, first of all, could you tell us a bit about your background and education? Answer by Dr. Tracy Cross: I grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee, and...

Teasing and Gifted Children by Patricia A. Schuler First published in the SENG Newsletter, 2002 "Shut up!" "Stop humiliating me!" "Stop it before I destroy you!" I had been observing a second grade classroom when I was jolted by these screams. Remembering these...

Gifted Kids at Risk: Who's Listening? By Patricia A. Schuler Driving home from last week's Hollingworth Conference on the Highly Gifted, I heard a radio interview with Thomas Moore, author of Care of the Soul. He spoke of the loss of empathy in our lives. His words...

by Ugur Sak In this study, the author synthesizes results of studies about personality types of gifted adolescents. Fourteen studies were coded with 19 independent samples. The total number of identified participants in original studies was 5,723. The most common...

by Annemarie Roeper The emotions are the heart and soul of giftedness. The heart and soul of the human being is my passion. I have been preoccupied with it throughout my life. When we look into the eyes of children and adults we see their souls. We receive their...

Social and Emotional Issues Faced by Gifted Girls in Elementary and Secondary School Author: Sally Reis Citation: From The SENG Newsletter. 2002 2(3) 1-5. Research with talented girls and women has revealed a number of personality factors, personal priorities, and...

The population of students in secondary schools who are concomitantly gifted and learning disabled is especially at risk for poor academic performance. Often, their sense of self has been damaged by schools’ overemphasis on their disabilities at the expense of efforts aimed at enhancing their strengths. Using student cases and a review of literature as a foundation, this exploration advocates the development of individual student talent as a philosophical theme for schools to accommodate the social and emotional needs among gifted/learning disabled youth. Descriptions of several educational innovations and reform components, likely to enhance talent development, are included as additional means for examining the critical relationship between self esteem and academic success.